Pastoral Theological Reflections on Deification from a Lutheran Perspective
In this article, I explore deification in light of the practice of pastoral ministry in Lutheran settings, engaging the biblical witness and key features of the Lutheran theological tradition as sources for understanding deification from a Lutheran ...
Jonathan Linman
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The “God-Man Living”: Deification in Practical Theology
The doctrine of deification (or theosis) has seen renewed interest in recent decades within lines of inquiry that extend beyond its traditional association with the Eastern Orthodox tradition. The ascendancy of Tuomo Mannermaa’s Finnish interpretation of
Michael Reardon, Brian Siu Kit Chiu
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The Pilgrim’s Progress or Regress? The Case of Transhumanism and Deification
Transhumanism presents a view of human progress by transcending the human, regarding finitude and suffering to be fundamental problems that must be overcome by radical bioenhancement technologies.
Kimbell Kornu
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Is there an Orthodox anthropology? [PDF]
The critical article states and briefly analyses the main problems related to Orthodox anthropology (a small section is devoted to particular points of anthropology in Eastern religions).
Dunaev Alexey
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Self-Deification and Mammon: A Weberian Theological Insight into Church Decline Trends in Protestant South Korea and the Occident [PDF]
In this work, Max Weber’s social analysis is employed to demonstrate that human self-deification is the cardinal reason for church decline. Weber’s social analytical tool unearths the various sources of human self-deification in the church ...
Charles Amarkwei
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Aspect visuel de la deification selon Denys L’areopagite [PDF]
One of the thinkers who intellectually consolidated deification and gave it a solid doctrinal basis, which has remained fundamentally important until today, was (Pseudo)-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Ivanović Filip
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DIGITAL SPACE AS AN INCENTIVE FOR THE FORMATION OF INDIVIDUALIZATION AND SELF-DETERMINATION
This article examines the influence of digital space on the formation of personality, and analyzes its specifics. In other words, the author considers the genesis of individuality and personal metamorphoses that are initiated under the influence of the ...
Nikolay I. Petev
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Mõningad märkused nelja ilmakaare kuninga ja jumal-kuninga kontseptsiooni kohta Sumeris ja Akkadis 3. at eKr [PDF]
This article is dedicated to the issues related to the King of the Four Corners and the God-King in ancient Sumer and Akkad in the 3rd millennium BCE. The author shows that the title King of the Four Corners has always deified the ruler, but the ruler ...
Vladimir Sazonov
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The features of representation in the spiritual epistolary of Russian writers-monks of the idea of deification (theosis), the statement of which is associated with the development in the Orthodox culture of the ancient religious and philosophical ...
A. N. Smolina
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“Hypostatic communion” or “Sanctification through the energies”: the polemic of metropolitan John Zizioulas with V. N. Lossky and the “neopalamites” around the concept of deification [PDF]
The article analyzes the critical remarks of Metropolitan John Zizioulas regarding the theological concept of V.N. Lossky, related to the doctrine of human deification. Metropolitan John Zizioulas considered V.N.
Ivan Ulitchev
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